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June 14, 2018

A New and Improved Way To Find Baby Planets, Carnegie Institution for Science

An artist’s impression of protoplanets forming around a young star

May 10, 2018

The Eternal Sky, Part 3: Tools for Bang or Bounce

Image of canyon crack

April 26, 2018

You Are Here: Scientists Unveil Precise Map Of More Than A Billion Stars, NPR

Image of networks of stars in the night sky, showing parallax and proper motion on the sky

April 26, 2018

The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before, Scientific American

A graphical representation of Gaia’s all-sky data on the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and color of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016

April 25, 2018

Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time By Thomas Sumner

Artistic illustration of newly discovered group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe

March 22, 2018

Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way By Thomas Sumner

A photo mosaic of an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy, looking toward the central bulge. The arc-shaped Magellanic Stream stretches below the galaxy’s plane and the shredded, fragmented Leading Arm crosses the galaxy’s plane and extends above it

March 19, 2018

Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Breaks Their Own Record, Gauss Center for Supercomputing

Composite which combines gas temperature (as the color) and shock mach number (as the brightness). Red indicates 10 million Kelvin gas at the centers of massive galaxy clusters, while bright structures show diffuse gas from the intergalactic medium shock heating at the boundary between cosmic voids and filaments

February 20, 2018

Astronomers’ Dark Energy Hopes Fade to Gray, The New York Times

A remnant from a Type 1A supernova observed in the Milky Way, one of the cosmic markers of how fast the universe is expanding